New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-04
EFFECTS OF RETALIATION.
GREAT BRITAIN CONVINCED THAT AMERICA
MEANS BUSINESS.
CANADA TO BE CURBED. BUT GRADuALLf-RUssiA
MAKING MISCHIEF IN BULaARIA-No LIB
ERAL REUNION YET-LONDoN CoRRUP'
TIONIsTs IN PANIC--LoRD woIsELEf
on HIS OWN FAILURH-THE
SOCIETY OF AUTHORS

TIoNIsrs IN A PANIC--LoRD woIsELEY
on HIS OWN FAILURK-THE
SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.
TBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUSEl
Copyright: 1887; North american Cdok Ne'es 20.
LONDON March 3.-Thls mornings New-ioiA
dispatches, announcing the passage OF the hetana-
ton BILL have produced good effect; and tmS
effect is all the better since the belief had been
fostered here that the two Houses OF Consress
would fail to agree telegram appeared III 1e
Daily News yesterday, announcing In "ho Vi
exultation-now seen to have been premature-Chac
all ATTEMPTS to unite on either or any measure hau
failed. This telegram was dated ao new iorM'
but seems t. have been Of Canadian origin since
the correspondent adds that this failure Is
fitting outcome Of the bluster Of both Houses on
this subject. No remark could be better calcu-
lated to give aid and comfort to the CANADIAN
party here or to strengthen The hands OF that
section of the Cabinet which wishes to back up
the Canadians in their policy of irritation. The
En- lish are perhaps more impressed by the pas-
SAGE of the Senate bill than if the stronger measure
which the House of Representatives wanted had
been adorted They would have doubted whether
the American Government was likely 10 enforce
the prohibition of railway traffic but an embargo
on Canadian vessels strikes them as leeltlmate
retaliation and they are inclined now To beneVe
that ConsrcsS means business.
You are reported to-day as saying that an ILL
perial reprmand of Canada is all that Is neces-
sary. Many Enslishmen, including some members
of the Government, are priv a,ely of your mind
Rut allowance must be made for the strong pro
Colonial feeling now prevailing. No Ministry
cares to administer to Canada the rebulle which
she so richly deserves. The official comment on
YOUR suggestion is that Lord Salisbury has to con-
slider not what is righteous but what is practicable
The riotous temper of the Canadians has been
tolerated too long to allow the curb to be put on
suddenly.
Details of the military revolt in Bulgaria are
still wanting, but at Vienna the opinion is that
the mutiny was confined to a small portion OF
fhe garrison OF Silistria and has been suppressed
without difficulty. Nobody doubts that Russian
intrigue is at the bottom Of this as of mosb other
Bull garan troubles.
Sir George Otto Trevelyan's impressive speech
last night at the dinner Of the Devonsmre Cluo
was made under the belief that it would not be
reported. summary, nevertheless. appears III
"1Ie Daily News or rather selection OF such
sentences as are likely TO be most disagreeabe TO
the Government. What Sir George Irevelyan
said does not 60 much beyond his Aberdeen letter.
but one expression is important. Between the
two sections of the Liberal party. he declared
the diffe ences are imaginary and belong to the
rast, while their points of agreement are real and
tangible II Mr. Gladstone's bills were laid aside
the leading Liberals on both sides could agree on
q comprehensive end thorough scheme for settle
ment of the Irish question. Sir George Trevelyan
himself has moved toward MIR. Gladstone's
position, but no other leading Liberal Cnionist
seems disposed to keep step with him. One OF
MIR. Gladstone's chief allies, discussing the sub
ject yesterday, laid bare, think, the real feeling
of that side. No effective reunion Of the Liberal
&c npti ord Iapti On
is prepared to come to terms and there is no sign
whatever of any meeting of minds between him
and Mr. Gladstone. The letter from Mr.. Glad
stone to "The Baptist makes no new point. IL
Is thought to be uncOmpronising in tone and
possibly despondng in its doubt as TO whether the
writer himself shall the end of the Irish
struggle.
Mr. Georce Howell's attack the Corporation
of the City Of London promises to prove the most
effective attempt to reform that municipality that
has vet been made Mr.. Labouchere's avow al
of his own responsibility for the charges of gross
corrupt N by city officials at convinced the
House of Commons of the seriousness Of the accu-
sation Mr. Iabouchere jokes on many subjects,
but not with figures, and few men surpass him In
knowledge of all tie ins and outs of business in
the City What he undertakes TO prove he will
prove. The alarm in high places in the City cX-
eceds anyti ing before known. The investigation
committee will have full powers. Those who
know best say that the evidence is complete Of
the systematic use Of public funds by or with the
knowledge of some of the chief officers OF London
for purposes which aIe beyond question corrupt.
on Mr. Bri hts charges against British troops OF
cruelty In the Soudan Mr. Bright on being
asked declines either to explain or TO withdraw
his charges and Lord WOlseley reiterates his
denials of them. Public opinion is strongly
Lord WOlseley's side and SO is it another and
more serious point which he touched yesterday
Lord Wolselcy has often said in private and now
afIirms publicly that the expedition for the relief
of General Gordon might and ought to have
started two months earlier than it did. In that
casc or even had General Stewart or Colonel
Burnaby remained alive, General Gordon would
have been rescued. The latter is fatal criticism
on Sir Charles Wilson, who hung back three days
instead of pushing on TO Khartoum.
The Society OF Authors has at last outgrown the
natural timidity of young organization, found
the courage Of its opinions and taken completely
new departure. Lord Lytton who presided at a
crowded meeting yesterday at Willis's Rooms,
kcrt the beaten track in bis polished address, 1t
was Mr.. Walter Bcsant who struck the new note
lie, with every profession of persC goodwill and
respect for honorable publishers set forth un-
fnchingy catalogue of those singular practices
BY which less honorable publishers secure to them
selves an unfair proportion OF the profits of a
book lie showed how they set apart secret
profits, withhold accounts, and present to the
author fictitious statements Of the cost OF his
book lie showed not less clearly that even
where all is abOvcbOard the publisher takes for
his services in introducing the book to the public
more than twice thrice what he allows the
author for writing il. lie announced that the
Society henceforward would NJ longer be content
with protecting indiv against injustice, but
meant TO establish new principle on a new basis
Of dealing as between authors and publishers. lie